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...Thanked Arkansas' Polk County Possum Club for sending him its prize possum. (The club had also sent its ugliest, scrawniest possum to John L. Lewis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Happy Days | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

Editors asked for more. Dave invented Rochester's Mayor Walter Tripp (in real life proprietor of the Jiffy Lunch), had him announce a Reduced Production County Fair, dedicated to New Deal crop control. Prizes were offered for the scrawniest pig, puniest pumpkin, cow yielding the least milk, the most sterile quart of soil. A special prize awaited the farmer entering fewest exhibits. Appreciative, Associated Press sent the tale over its wires. From all over the U. S. letters poured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Taleteller | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

Florida is a fabulous place, a low-lying (max. elev. 325 ft.) peninsula full of paradoxes and contrasts, great banality and great excitement. It offers to the observer hurricanes and breathless heat, some of the world's healthiest fish and scrawniest cattle, the unbelievably hard living of the Everglades and the unbelievably soft living of Palm Beach. Every year 2,000,000 visitors drive, ride, sail and fly there to see such divergent sights as the matchless Rubens collection in the Ringling Art Museum at Sarasota, the barbarously gaudy architecture of Hollywood, the flowerlike flamingos in the infield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORIDA: Pepper v. Sholtz v. Wilcox | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

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